Security Cleared Contracts in the Thames Valley

Security Clearance
South East > Thames Valley

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the Thames Valley with a requirement for Security Cleared qualifications. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered over the 6 months to 25 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
25 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 1 2 8
Rank change year-on-year +1 +6 +9
Contract jobs citing Security Cleared 733 665 494
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 27.86% 23.39% 14.00%
As % of the Qualifications category 69.28% 68.14% 46.96%
Number of daily rates quoted 439 453 390
10th Percentile £232 £325 £360
25th Percentile £431 £415 £446
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £560 £501 £513
Median % change year-on-year +11.78% -2.24% +5.45%
75th Percentile £638 £600 £625
90th Percentile £716 £680 £650
South East median daily rate £592 £525 £539
% change year-on-year +12.71% -2.55% +13.42%
Number of hourly rates quoted 78 37 19
10th Percentile £38.52 £18.50 £16.50
25th Percentile £52.90 £27.00 £17.00
Median hourly rate £61.60 £64.68 £21.05
Median % change year-on-year -4.75% +207.24% -
75th Percentile £75.24 £73.59 £50.88
90th Percentile £87.46 £79.19 £70.50
South East median hourly rate £61.60 £63.50 £47.50
% change year-on-year -2.99% +33.68% +18.75%

All Academic and Professional Certifications
Thames Valley

Security Cleared is in the Academic Qualifications and Professional Certifications category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in the Thames Valley with a requirement for academic qualifications or professional certifications.

Contract vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 1,058 976 1,052
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 40.21% 34.33% 29.82%
Number of daily rates quoted 563 635 715
10th Percentile £234 £319 £275
25th Percentile £420 £410 £407
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% +5.26% -
75th Percentile £619 £600 £588
90th Percentile £688 £680 £650
South East median daily rate £550 £525 £500
% change year-on-year +4.76% +5.00% +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 102 48 28
10th Percentile £18.55 £17.83 £16.25
25th Percentile £41.63 £25.69 £18.32
Median hourly rate £58.30 £64.68 £21.00
Median % change year-on-year -9.86% +207.98% -0.24%
75th Percentile £70.39 £74.84 £53.50
90th Percentile £86.86 £80.25 £80.81
South East median hourly rate £57.35 £60.00 £45.00
% change year-on-year -4.42% +33.33% +5.88%

Security Cleared
Job Vacancy Trend in the Thames Valley

Job postings citing Security Cleared as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the Thames Valley.

Job vacancy trend for Security Cleared in the Thames Valley

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the Thames Valley

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Security Cleared in the Thames Valley.

Daily rate trend for Security Cleared in the Thames Valley

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Daily Rate Histogram in the Thames Valley

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Security Cleared in the Thames Valley over the 6 months to 25 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Security Cleared in the Thames Valley

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the Thames Valley

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Security Cleared in the Thames Valley.

Hourly rate trend for Security Cleared in the Thames Valley

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Hourly Rate Histogram in the Thames Valley

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Security Cleared in the Thames Valley over the 6 months to 25 May 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Security Cleared in the Thames Valley

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Contract Job Locations in the Thames Valley

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Security Cleared within the Thames Valley region over the 6 months to 25 May 2024. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Berkshire +2 575 £580 +1.75% 179
Buckinghamshire 0 149 £511 +8.72% 36
Oxfordshire -10 9 £650 +44.44% 19
Security Cleared
South East

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Thames Valley by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 27 (3.68%) Microsoft Exchange
2 8 (1.09%) SharePoint
3 3 (0.41%) OpenStack
4 1 (0.14%) Confluence
4 1 (0.14%) JBoss
4 1 (0.14%) Moodle
4 1 (0.14%) Oracle Spatial
4 1 (0.14%) Red Hat Fuse
Applications
1 64 (8.73%) Microsoft Office
2 17 (2.32%) Microsoft Excel
3 9 (1.23%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 7 (0.95%) Microsoft Project
4 7 (0.95%) Spreadsheet
5 5 (0.68%) MS Visio
5 5 (0.68%) Siemens NX
6 2 (0.27%) Adobe After Effects
6 2 (0.27%) Adobe Premiere
6 2 (0.27%) CINEMA 4D
7 1 (0.14%) 3ds Max
7 1 (0.14%) Blender
Business Applications
1 29 (3.96%) Primavera
2 27 (3.68%) SAP QM
3 22 (3.00%) SAP EWM
4 10 (1.36%) SAP S/4HANA
5 8 (1.09%) Teamcenter
6 1 (0.14%) SAP PLM
Cloud Services
1 111 (15.14%) Azure
2 46 (6.28%) AWS
3 42 (5.73%) Microsoft 365
4 22 (3.00%) OpenShift
5 20 (2.73%) Entra ID
6 19 (2.59%) Azure Monitor
7 18 (2.46%) Azure Storage
8 14 (1.91%) OCI
9 11 (1.50%) Azure DevOps
10 4 (0.55%) PaaS
11 3 (0.41%) Amazon ECS
11 3 (0.41%) Amazon EKS
11 3 (0.41%) Serverless
12 2 (0.27%) Amazon S3
12 2 (0.27%) Amazon SQS
12 2 (0.27%) GCP
12 2 (0.27%) Power Automate
12 2 (0.27%) Power Platform
12 2 (0.27%) SaaS
12 2 (0.27%) Slack
Communications & Networking
1 92 (12.55%) Firewall
2 58 (7.91%) DNS
3 52 (7.09%) DHCP
4 49 (6.68%) LAN
5 47 (6.41%) WAN
6 28 (3.82%) Intrusion Detection
6 28 (3.82%) SAN
7 22 (3.00%) TCP/IP
8 15 (2.05%) Network Security
9 11 (1.50%) Cisco ASA
9 11 (1.50%) Cisco ISE
10 10 (1.36%) SSL
10 10 (1.36%) VPN
11 8 (1.09%) MPLS
12 7 (0.95%) BGP
12 7 (0.95%) SD-WAN
13 4 (0.55%) Internet
13 4 (0.55%) IPsec
13 4 (0.55%) Remote Desktop
13 4 (0.55%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 34 (4.64%) PostgreSQL
2 25 (3.41%) Oracle Database
3 14 (1.91%) Elasticsearch
4 13 (1.77%) Oracle Database 11g
5 9 (1.23%) SAP HANA
6 7 (0.95%) SQL Server
7 4 (0.55%) Relational Database
8 3 (0.41%) MySQL
9 2 (0.27%) MongoDB
10 1 (0.14%) GIS
10 1 (0.14%) Power BI
10 1 (0.14%) Spatial Data
Development Applications
1 38 (5.18%) Jenkins
2 29 (3.96%) Selenium
3 25 (3.41%) Cucumber
4 24 (3.27%) REST Assured
4 24 (3.27%) SonarQube
5 16 (2.18%) GitLab
6 14 (1.91%) Git
6 14 (1.91%) JIRA
7 7 (0.95%) Visual Studio
8 4 (0.55%) Artifactory
8 4 (0.55%) Bitbucket
9 3 (0.41%) JMeter
9 3 (0.41%) MSI
9 3 (0.41%) Robot Framework
10 2 (0.27%) InstallShield
10 2 (0.27%) Rational DOORS
11 1 (0.14%) JUnit
11 1 (0.14%) MSTest
11 1 (0.14%) SpecFlow
11 1 (0.14%) TeamCity
General
1 172 (23.47%) Social Skills
2 154 (21.01%) Public Sector
3 59 (8.05%) Analytical Skills
4 36 (4.91%) Organisational Skills
5 20 (2.73%) Finance
5 20 (2.73%) Law
6 15 (2.05%) Military
7 13 (1.77%) Police
8 12 (1.64%) Aviation
8 12 (1.64%) Presentation Skills
9 10 (1.36%) Telecoms
10 7 (0.95%) Manufacturing
11 4 (0.55%) Electronics
11 4 (0.55%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 4 (0.55%) Pharmaceutical
12 3 (0.41%) Influencing Skills
12 3 (0.41%) Marketing
13 2 (0.27%) Environmental Health
13 2 (0.27%) Legal
14 1 (0.14%) Aerospace
Job Titles
1 117 (15.96%) Architect
2 116 (15.83%) Senior
3 69 (9.41%) Consultant
4 58 (7.91%) SAP Consultant
5 57 (7.78%) Developer
6 51 (6.96%) Analyst
7 50 (6.82%) Security Architect
8 40 (5.46%) Infrastructure Engineer
9 32 (4.37%) Active Directory Support
10 31 (4.23%) Support Specialist
11 29 (3.96%) Support Engineer
12 28 (3.82%) Administrator
12 28 (3.82%) Systems Administrator
13 26 (3.55%) Active Directory Specialist
13 26 (3.55%) Azure Specialist
13 26 (3.55%) Cybersecurity Architect
13 26 (3.55%) SAP QM Consultant
14 24 (3.27%) Network Engineer
14 24 (3.27%) Project Manager
14 24 (3.27%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 31 (4.23%) ARM Templates
2 28 (3.82%) REST
3 25 (3.41%) Java EE
4 13 (1.77%) Itk
4 13 (1.77%) Kafka
5 12 (1.64%) Web Services
6 10 (1.36%) .NET
7 9 (1.23%) SAP Basis
8 8 (1.09%) ASP.NET
9 6 (0.82%) SAP Fiori
10 4 (0.55%) Elastic Stack
10 4 (0.55%) YAML
11 3 (0.41%) Node.js
11 3 (0.41%) React
11 3 (0.41%) Spring
11 3 (0.41%) Spring Boot
12 2 (0.27%) .NET Core
12 2 (0.27%) Fluent Bit
12 2 (0.27%) Loki
12 2 (0.27%) Mustache
Miscellaneous
1 40 (5.46%) PKI
2 28 (3.82%) Driving Licence
3 24 (3.27%) Data Centre
3 24 (3.27%) Self-Motivation
4 15 (2.05%) Cloud Native
5 11 (1.50%) Data Protection Act
6 9 (1.23%) Management Information System
7 8 (1.09%) Client/Server
7 8 (1.09%) Product Ownership
8 7 (0.95%) Private Cloud
9 5 (0.68%) Security Posture
10 4 (0.55%) Cyber Threat
10 4 (0.55%) Distributed Systems
10 4 (0.55%) Linux Command Line
10 4 (0.55%) Public Cloud
11 3 (0.41%) Fat Client
11 3 (0.41%) iPad
11 3 (0.41%) PMI
11 3 (0.41%) Robotics
11 3 (0.41%) Thin Client
Operating Systems
1 134 (18.28%) Windows
2 87 (11.87%) Linux
3 76 (10.37%) Windows Server
4 70 (9.55%) Windows 10
5 62 (8.46%) Windows Server 2019
6 59 (8.05%) Windows Server 2016
7 36 (4.91%) Windows 7
8 32 (4.37%) Windows Server 2012
9 18 (2.46%) Windows NT
10 14 (1.91%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
10 14 (1.91%) Windows XP
11 13 (1.77%) Ubuntu
12 11 (1.50%) Debian
13 5 (0.68%) Unix
14 2 (0.27%) VMS
15 1 (0.14%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 132 (18.01%) DevOps
2 128 (17.46%) ITIL
3 127 (17.33%) Problem-Solving
4 98 (13.37%) Agile
5 67 (9.14%) Stakeholder Management
6 66 (9.00%) Customer Service
7 58 (7.91%) Project Management
8 55 (7.50%) Release Management
8 55 (7.50%) Software Engineering
9 50 (6.82%) Infrastructure Engineering
9 50 (6.82%) Service Management
10 49 (6.68%) Performance Tuning
11 48 (6.55%) Cybersecurity
12 47 (6.41%) Change Management
12 47 (6.41%) Decision-Making
13 41 (5.59%) Configuration Management
14 40 (5.46%) User Acceptance Testing
15 37 (5.05%) Security Architecture
16 36 (4.91%) Infrastructure as Code
17 35 (4.77%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 70 (9.55%) PowerShell
2 36 (4.91%) Python
3 33 (4.50%) C#
4 31 (4.23%) Java
5 26 (3.55%) VBScript
6 19 (2.59%) SQL
7 18 (2.46%) Bicep
7 18 (2.46%) VB
8 13 (1.77%) PL/SQL
9 10 (1.36%) C
10 8 (1.09%) Bash
11 6 (0.82%) C++
12 5 (0.68%) JavaScript
13 3 (0.41%) Shell Script
14 1 (0.14%) Go
14 1 (0.14%) Perl
14 1 (0.14%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 394 (53.75%) DV Cleared
2 354 (48.29%) SC Cleared
3 83 (11.32%) Degree
4 32 (4.37%) Cisco Certification
5 29 (3.96%) CCNP
6 19 (2.59%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
7 18 (2.46%) CCNA
8 9 (1.23%) BPSS Clearance
9 8 (1.09%) APMP
9 8 (1.09%) ISEB
10 6 (0.82%) CISM
10 6 (0.82%) PMI Certification
11 5 (0.68%) Microsoft Certification
11 5 (0.68%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
12 4 (0.55%) VCAP
12 4 (0.55%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
13 3 (0.41%) ISTQB
13 3 (0.41%) ITIL Certification
13 3 (0.41%) PMP
13 3 (0.41%) RIBA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 22 (3.00%) QA
2 21 (2.86%) SLA
3 9 (1.23%) PMO
4 7 (0.95%) NCSC
5 6 (0.82%) NIST
6 5 (0.68%) ISO 9000
7 1 (0.14%) Data Quality
7 1 (0.14%) GDPR
System Software
1 100 (13.64%) Active Directory
2 41 (5.59%) VMware Infrastructure
3 36 (4.91%) Firmware
4 24 (3.27%) Hyper-V
5 21 (2.86%) Docker
6 20 (2.73%) Virtual Machines
7 18 (2.46%) Virtual Desktop
8 17 (2.32%) VMware ESXi
9 6 (0.82%) vSphere
10 4 (0.55%) Slurm Workload Manager
10 4 (0.55%) VMware NSX
11 2 (0.27%) Microsoft App-V
12 1 (0.14%) NFS
12 1 (0.14%) vCloud
12 1 (0.14%) XenApp
12 1 (0.14%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 90 (12.28%) SCCM
2 57 (7.78%) Kubernetes
3 54 (7.37%) WSUS
4 46 (6.28%) Ansible
5 39 (5.32%) SCOM
6 22 (3.00%) Active Directory Federation Services
7 21 (2.86%) Microsoft Intune
7 21 (2.86%) Terraform
8 18 (2.46%) Sysprep
9 17 (2.32%) Grafana
9 17 (2.32%) vCenter Server
10 15 (2.05%) EMC NetWorker
10 15 (2.05%) Istio
11 14 (1.91%) NetBackup
12 13 (1.77%) Argo
12 13 (1.77%) Nessus
12 13 (1.77%) Prometheus
13 12 (1.64%) Docker Swarm
13 12 (1.64%) Podman
14 11 (1.50%) Kibana
Vendors
1 201 (27.42%) Microsoft
2 81 (11.05%) VMware
3 67 (9.14%) SAP
4 56 (7.64%) Cisco
5 48 (6.55%) HP
5 48 (6.55%) Juniper
6 45 (6.14%) Oracle
7 25 (3.41%) Palo Alto
8 23 (3.14%) Red Hat
9 20 (2.73%) ServiceNow
10 19 (2.59%) Veeam
11 16 (2.18%) Dell
12 15 (2.05%) EMC
13 14 (1.91%) 3PAR
13 14 (1.91%) Extreme Networks
13 14 (1.91%) Symantec
14 11 (1.50%) ScienceLogic
15 5 (0.68%) NEC
15 5 (0.68%) Siemens
16 4 (0.55%) Apple